4 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 2010-2022
The Monist January 18, 2022 Jonardon Ganeri
AbstractThe phrase “cosmic consciousness” has a surprising and fascinating history. I will show how it first enters into circulation in the writings of the remarkable Englishman Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), a socialist, philosopher, and prescient activist for gay rights and prison reform. Carpenter made a trip to India and Sri Lanka in 1890, where he spent two months sitting at the feet of...
Ratio August 2, 2018 Jonardon Ganeri 2 citations
Abstract Buddhist philosophy of mind is fascinating because it denies that there is a self in one of the ways that has traditionally seemed best able to make sense of that idea: the idea that the self is the agent of actions including the thinking of thoughts. In the Buddhist philosophy of mind of the fifth century thinker Buddhaghosa what does the explanatory work is instead attention....
Oxford University Press eBooks April 26, 2012 Jonardon Ganeri
Abstract There are two ways to account for the nature of phenomenologically presented ownership constitutive of the "immersed" self. One sees it as fundamentally a relationship of bodily ownership: the theory of a core self as bodily feeling of presence to oneself is a bodily account of immersion. Other accounts develop an analysis out of a more detailed study of the structure of...
Oxford University Press eBooks December 1, 2010 Jonardon Ganeri 5 citations
Subjectivity, Selfhood and the Use of the Word 'I' JONARDON GANERI I. Asan ˙ga and Vasubandhu on Self-Consciousness and Conscious Attention to Oneself A well-known Buddhist philosophy of mind has it that conscious experience is a synthesis of five forms of activity: the processes of registering, appraising, stereotyping, readying, and consciously attending.1These philosophers say that the last...